CDMUG April 2012 Meet Up - Teams-Commerce-Git

Warming up with the adventure of My First Team Based Drupal Project and then moving into CDMUG's first presentation on Commerce, April's meetup has something for everyone. Git nerds, get excited. Based on popular demand Tim Madden returns for a well deserved full presentation.

Duo Consulting opens doors at 6:00pm for attendees to arrive, socialize, and hang out before meetups. We try for presentations to officially start by 7:00pm. Comment your RSVP with full name and bring photo ID to gain authorized access to Duo's office downtown.

Presentations:

My First Team Based Drupal Project by Gary Koehl

Swimming in Commerce by Joe Moses

Taming Git -- Continued by Tim Madden

Gary Koehl is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Delaware and has been working as a developer professionally for about 6 years. He has experience working across numerous frameworks as well as many custom built projects. Gary currently is employed as a software engineer at the Nerdery.

Joe Moses is Lead Technical Developer at global marketing agency Trekk, Inc., where he has spent the past six years developing web-based tools and applications for clients ranging from Adobe Systems Inc. to Xerox. By applying engineering technology studies to computer science, he employs continuous improvement methods and strives for simplicity to ensure his projects are efficient and elegant. He is continually experimenting with new technologies, with particular interest in the cloud and mobile web.

Tim Madden of Connect2Market helps clients by delivering them software tailored to serve their needs and opportunities.

The Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group is proud to present at least two featured presentations about the hottest Drupal topics each month. We have room for 75 people and all skill levels are welcomed. If you are brand new to Drupal we recommend attending one of our free monthly training workshops.

Gary Koehl will be presenting....My First Team Based Drupal Project...the development process of my first team based Drupal project from start to finish. The presentation will include a look at how the deployment environment was created with the help of Drush, and how it tied in SVN to the project. The Features module will also be discussed and how we handled some of its limitations. Gary will also briefly touch on how we used the migrate module.

Joe Moses will be presenting....Swimming in Commerce.....go beyond a quick dive-in to show you how to stay afloat, navigate and effectively use the Commerce module(s). He’ll explain its features and show you how to use it from a site builder/admin perspective. To bring it all together, he’ll include a couple case studies and show examples of some sites running in the wild.

Tim Madden will be presenting...Taming Git...continuing the talk from last month with focus on using git itself -- and drush too! (We will not go through the slides again, but if you missed them you can review them here: http://presentations.connect2mrkt.com/taming_git/ )

If you are not able to physically attend, join us virtually in our #cdmug IRC chat room on freenode. Members hang out in the chat room on a daily basis even when meetups are not happening. If you are unfamiliar with IRC view http://drupal.org/irc feel free to utilize our web based chat client @ http://cdmug.org/chat

All meetups will be in traditional CDMUG fashion. No dress code, relaxed attitudes, open ideas, laptop encouraged, remember business cards, and we will probably go for a beer afterward.

Contact us if you are interested in presenting, have ideas for the group, have any type of feedback - http://cdmug.org/contact or follow us on twitter @ twitter.com/cdmug

Topics presented at CDMUG always reveal the usefulness of an aspect of Drupal that you may not have gotten to yet. I have to take a better look at drush and consider how best to use git with Drupal. Also, got a really good primer on how to build an e-commerce site.

If anyone wants to take a little jaunt between work and meetup, today (and Thursdays all summer) there will be a food truck meetup at the old Ethyl's bar in the West Loop with 5 or 6 trucks of delicious. Check out http://foodtruckfreak.com/food-truck-thursdays-are-back/ for details and let me know if you plan on going.